Bob Dylan

This past Saturday, the Palace Theater in Stafford Springs hosted former Bob Dylan bassist Rob Stoner, along with Max Creek members Scott Murawski, Mark Mercier and Bill Carbone and Legion of Jerry's Jeff Martinson and Kate Hubbard, performing two sets of classic Dylan songs. They were joined by harmonica player Sam Friedman.

Stoner was Dylan's bassist during the 1975-76 Rolling Thunder Revue tour. Murawski, Mercier and Carbone, three-fifths of local legends Max Creek, are no strangers to Connecticut music fans.

The whole performance was captured on video, which you can view below.

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He won't be there in person but the Nobel Foundation says Bob Dylan has written a speech that will be read out at the traditional Nobel Prize banquet. Dylan, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, declined the invitation to the Dec. 10 prize...

He won't be there in person but the Nobel Foundation says Bob Dylan has written a speech that will be read out at the traditional Nobel Prize banquet.
Dylan, the winner of this year's Nobel Prize in literature, declined the invitation to the Dec. 10...

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Ten years ago, a true-blue Bob Dylan fan in Hibbing, Minn., persuaded city officials to name a local street after its native son.
"Bob Dylan Drive" is just a five-block stretch of 7th Avenue, leading past the songwriter's childhood home and...

Bob Dylan, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature but won't be attending the prize ceremony, likely will travel to Stockholm next year and might give his Nobel Lecture then, the Swedish Academy said Friday. Dylan likely will give a concert in...

Bob Dylan, who was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature but won't be attending the prize ceremony, likely will travel to Stockholm next year and might give his Nobel Lecture then, the Swedish Academy said Friday. Dylan likely will give a concert in...

Bob Dylan won't be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony. The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them "he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments...

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Collins lived in Storrs for a while in the early '60s while her husband was studying William Blake. Collins has...

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Bob Dylan won't be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony.
The Swedish Academy said Wednesday that Dylan told them "he wishes he could receive the prize personally, but other commitments make...

Bob Dylan won't be coming to Stockholm to pick up his 2016 Nobel Prize for literature at the Dec. 10 prize ceremony, the Swedish Academy said Wednesday.
The academy said Dylan informed it that "he wishes he could receive the prize personally,...

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Bob Dylan has accepted the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature, the Swedish Academy said, adding that getting the prestigious award left him "speechless."
The academy's permanent secretary, Sara Danius, said Dylan himself contacted them and said...

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